The Obama administration’s mugging of the First Amendment continues apace.

The State Department was all over the airwaves in Pakistan yesterday, spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars pleading with Muslims not to blame the US government — that is, Barack Obama — for that anti-Islam video.

The 30-second spots feature the president citing America’s long tradition of religious tolerance.

They might also have included Obama talking about this nation’s equally long and cherished tradition of free speech.

But they don’t.

Indeed, they might even have pointed out that Americans enjoy a right to speak their minds — whenever they choose, whatever their opinions — and that most Pakistanis don’t.

Instead, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seen condemning the YouTube video and insisting that Washington had nothing at all to do with it.